Rendering of sounds associated with selected target objects external to a device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020204966-A1
Application number	US-201916720639-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 19, 2019
Priority date	Dec 21, 2018
Publication date	Jun 25, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

The techniques disclosed herein include a first device including one or more processors configured to detect a selection of at least one target object external to the first device, and initiate a channel of communication between the first device and a second device associated with the at least one target object external to the first device. The one or more processors may be configured to receive audio packets, from the second device, in response to the selection of at least one target object external to the device, decode the audio packets, received from the second device, to generate an audio signal. The one or more processors may be configured to output the audio signal based on the selection of the at least one target object external to the first device. The first device includes a memory, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to store the audio packets.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A first device for initiating communication with a second device, the first device comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
detect a selection of at least one target object external to the first device;
initiate a channel of communication between the first device and a second device associated with the at least one target object external to the first device;
receive audio packets, from the second device, in response to the selection of at least one target object external to the first device;
decode the audio packets, received from the second device to generate an audio signal; and
output the audio signal based on the selection of the at least one target object external to the first device; and
a memory, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to store the audio packets.

2 . The first device of claim 1 , wherein the representation of the at least on target object relative to the first device is based on features of an image, the image, or both the image and features of the image, wherein the image captured by one or more cameras, coupled to the first device.

3 . The first device of claim 1 , further comprising one or more transmitter antenna, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to send communication data to the second device based on the initiation, by the one or more processors, of the channel of communication between the first device and the second device associated with the at least one target object external to the first device.

4 . The first device of claim 1 , further comprising one or more receive antenna, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to receive the audio packets based on the result of the initiation of the channel of the communication between the at least one target object external to the first device and the first device.

5 . The first device of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the at least one target object is based on detection of a command signal based on keyword detection.

6 . The first device of claim 1 , further comprising a display device configured to represent the at least one target object external to the device, and wherein the selection of the at least one target object external to the device is based on a capacitive sensor, or, ultrasound sensor on the display device changing state.

7 . The first device of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the at least one target object is based on detection of a command signal based on eye gaze detection.

8 . The first device of claim 1 , where the relative position of the second device is represented as an image of the second device on the display device.

9 . The first device of claim 1 , wherein the output of audio signal is a three-dimensional spatialized audio signal is based on a relative position of the second device.

10 . The first device of claim 9 , further comprising a display device that is configured to represent the relative position of the second device, and wherein the output of the three-dimensional spatialized audio signal is based on where the relative position of the second device is represented on the display device.

11 . The first device of claim 9 , further comprising a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to aid the device perform assisted GPS to determine the relative position of the second device, and wherein the output of the three-dimensional spatialized audio signal of the selection of the at least one target object external to the first device is based on the assisted GPS.

12 . The first device of claim 9 , further comprising one or more sensors, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to aid in the estimate of the relative position of the second device.

13 . The first device of claim 9 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to output the three-dimensional spatialized audio signal at a different spatial resolution when the second device is at a first location relative to the first device, as compared to a second location relative to the second device.

14 . The first device of claim 9 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive an updated estimate of the relative position of the at least one target object external to the first device based on tracking of the at least one target object external to the first device, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to output the three-dimensional spatialized audio signal based on the updated estimate relative position of the at least one target object external to the device.

15 . The first device of claim 14 , further comprising two or more loudspeakers, coupled to the one or more processors, configured to render the three-dimensional spatialized audio signal based on the relative position of each vehicle of the multiple vehicles.

16 . The first device of claim 1 , wherein the device is a first vehicle.

17 . The first device of claim 1 , wherein one the target object is a secondary vehicle, and wherein multiple target objects in the at least one target object comprises multiple vehicles that are external to the device.

18 . The first device of claim 17 , wherein the one or more processors in the first vehicle are configured to receive audio packets in a separate communication channel from each of the multiple vehicles, and each of the multiple vehicles are secondary vehicles.

19 . The first device of claim 18 , wherein the audio packets represent speech spoken by at least one person in each vehicle of the secondary vehicles.

20 . The first device of claim 19 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to authenticate each of the person or vehicles of the secondary vehicles, to facilitate a trusted multi-party conversation between at least one person in a secondary vehicle and a person in the first vehicle.

21 . The first device of claim 19 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to disable a spatialization effect after the second device is more than a configurable distance away from the first device.

22 . The first device of claim 21 , wherein the configurable distance is a distance measurement or a time measurement.

23 . A method comprising initiating communication with a second device, the method comprising:
detecting a selection of at least one target object external to the first device; initiating a channel of communication between the first device and a second device associated with the at least one target object external to the first device; receiving audio packets, from the second device, in response to the selection of at least one target object external to the device; decoding the audio packets, received from the second device, to generate an audio signal; and outputting the audio signal based on the selection of the at least one target object external to the first device.

24 . The method of claim 23 , further comprising disabling a spatialization effect after the second device is more than a configurable distance away from the first device.

25 . The method of claim 24 wherein the configurable distance is a distance measurement or a time measurement.

26 . The method of claim 24 , wherein the representation of the at least on target object relative to the first device is based on features of an image, the image, or both the image and features of the image.

27 . The method of claim

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Thagadur Shivappa Shankar
• Forutanpour Bijan
• Nguyen Phi Hung

Classifications

• H04S2400/11

  Positioning of individual sound objects, e.g. moving airplane, within a sound field (H04S2420/13 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04S7/303

  Tracking of listener position or orientation · CPC title

• H04R5/02

  Spatial or constructional arrangements of loudspeakers · CPC title

• H04R1/025 Primary

  Arrangements for fixing loudspeaker transducers, e.g. in a box, furniture · CPC title

• G06T7/20

  Analysis of motion (motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51) · CPC title